http://doggiy.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] doggiy.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] artists_beware 2014-02-20 08:12 pm (UTC)

Re: Beware whatInsomnia

Honestly, even with the screencaps of "full conversations" that you included in this comment, your behavior and manner of speaking still comes across as extremely manipulative and harmful.

You're offended that whatInsomnia took so long to edit and revise a doodle that you purchased, but from what I gather, the artist gave you two options before all of this occurred; you could either accept a refund, or wait patiently as your commission would be postponed. You had every chance to say "yes, I would like a refund", but you didn't, and instead you consented to having your commission pushed back. When this discussion happened you should have expected a delay, and for other artwork to be completed during the wait time. If you didn't want to deal with the heartache, you should have just taken your money back when it was practically shoved into your hands, simple as that.

On another note, the fact that you later had the audacity to threaten the artist with an artist's beware after he had done absolutely nothing that could be considered problematic really puts me off and makes me reluctant to believe a word of your claims. A_B is a community meant to warn artists of troublesome customers, and vice versa. It's not here to be dangled over someone's head as a threat to get them to run their business the way that you want them to, no matter how justifiable that may seem in some situations. Besides, in the screencaps it can be clearly seen that you are disrespecting whatInsomnia, so why would you even want to publicize that and tarnish your own reputation as a buyer? The threat holds no weight and makes no sense.

For example, in the discussion I saw you suddenly bringing up the fact that you picked a scab and were bleeding, for no obvious reason other than to make the artist feel guilty. If you genuinely needed to explain your absence, you could have simple said that you were away from your computer for a moment, rather than taking an extremely unprofessional and somewhat abusive approach and then expecting the artist to still want to work with you, ignoring the fact that an artist is completely entitled to cancel and refund a commission at any given time.

You also tried to pressure them into posting artwork into their gallery, despite the fact that they refused, by outright accusing them of lying, calling them disingenuous, silly, and generally throwing a tantrum. It's their gallery, they have every right to refuse to post it and if you really wanted it to be seen you could easily have asked for permission to upload it into your own, with credit. When you bought the commission, you paid for the artist's services, which you later received. They're not obligated to provide anything else.

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